Rahul Mehta Gandhinagar LsCandidate
AK-420 propose fraudulent Right to Recall corporator procedure !! If ward has 100,000 voters, then 66000 must vote for recall !! And only 10% signature are needed for recall elections. IOW, there will be too many spurious recall elections , and despite them, real recall elections will NOT succeed.
In dec-2008, I had outlined some 10 characteristics of pseudo-recitalists (pls see section-13.19 of tinyurl . com / rahulmehta1 ). And and in apr-2011, I told all that Anna-840 and AK-420 are the pseudo-recitalists of the highest order and they meet all the 10 requirements I had cited. And in apr-2011, I had predicted that AK-420 will never give RTR-darft on his own. And if and when we recallists manage to push AK-420 to the wall and force AK-420 to give the RTR-draft, he will give a useless signature based RTR draft , and AK-420 will give RTR draft with negative recall only and not positive recall. And AK-420 will ONLY talk about RTR corporator, and oppose RTR for PM, CM, MLA, MP, Lokpal etc. Now pls for yourself. AK-420 has opposed the proposal to print RTR-Lokpal clauses in the Delhi Lokpal-draft. And in Delhi Nagarsabha Bill, AK-420 insisted on RTR-draft which requires signatures of over 10% voters, in a country where officers dont have signature specimen of even 1% voters and 50% voters dont know how to sign. And AK-420 opposes the procedure where person can submit his approvals via SMS or submit approvals via personally appearing at Talati = Patwari = village officer. And lastly, AK-420 has insisted on negative recall and NOT on positive recall , whch will make recall procedure unsuable and chaos-causing !!
All in all, AK-420 proposes a fraudulent RTR-corporator procedure !! If a ward has 100,000 voters, then as per procedure given by AK-420, 66000 voters must vote for a recall when recall poll is held !! And only 10% signature are needed to get a recall election. IOW, it is easy to get a spurious recall election, and actual recall will be impossible !! Also, in Delhi and many areas across India, some 10% voters in voter-list have moved and so they simply cant come to vote. So actual recall would need 66/90 = 73% voters to come during recall poll and also ask for recall !! For all practical purposes, this is an impossible condition and highly sub-optimal.
Now following is the Right to Recall law-draft I had proposed in 2002, and copies were give to 1000s of IAC/AAP workers since apr-2011 including AK-420 and Anna-840 (see section-40.2 of tinyurl . com / rahulmehta1 for similar RTR-MP, RTR-MLA etc procedures)
1. Say corporator elections have ended. Say there are 100,000 voters in a ward. Say corporator who got elected got 30000 votes.
2. Now after election ends, any citizen of India above age of 21 years can register himself as candidate for deposit of say Rs 10000 in at a corporation ward
3. Any voter can via SMS from his registered mobile or by personally visiting the Patwari , Talati, Village Officer office, can approve 5 or less candidates for Rs 3 fee. The approval will be open, and will come on collector's website with voters' name. And citizen will get SMS feedback for his approval. And citizen will also get recipet for his approval. (*)
4. The voter can cancel/change approvals anyday
5. Now say winner corporator had got 30000 votes. Then if any of the other candidates gets approval = votes corporators got + 10% of TOTAL = 30000 + 10% of 100,000 = 40000 voters, AND the approvals are 10000 more than existing corporator, then there will be recall-elections.
6. In recall election, the existing corporator will be candidate no.1 without any form filling and deposit. And there will be ONLY 8 more candidates --- the 8 persons who have highest approvals. Each must give deposit of Rs 10000 .
7. In recall election,the voting will be confidential.
8. The candidate must get over votes existing corporator got + 10% of TOTAL = over 40000 votes (in this example). Otherwise, existing corporator will stay
9. After recall elections, whther they are successful or failure the approval counts of all candidates will be set to zero.
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(* - in the draft I had proposed in 2002, there was NO SMS. The only way was to voter appearing in person at patwari office. SMS and ATM interfaces were added in around 2008)
Now lets see how the RTR-draft I propose is is foolproof
1. In the draft I proposed, the the recall election happen ONLY when one candidate has proven support of 10% more voters. So there are NO spurious recall elections.
2. Also, there is no mess like signature verification.
3. The votes alterbative needs to get is 10% more that existing corporator got. So there is a buffer to ensure stability
4. The condition that alternative can get 10% more votes is NOT an impossible condition.
5. And the voter has to appear in person has Talati's office or send SMS via his preregistered mobile to a 55XXX number (SMS spoofing doesnt work on 55XXX numbers ; also SMS spoofing is very difficult now and can be tracked back). So the procedure I have is something that officers can implement it today. Signature verification cannot be implemented today as officers dont have signature specimen of the voters
Congress/BJP leaders opposed this proposal and honestly told activists and voters to look for alternatives. But AK-420 lied to activists, that he is seriously interested in Right to Recall, and his goal from day one was to waste time of recallists. Which is why , he never gave draft, However, since too many activists started asking for draft, finally AK-420 has now given a useless RTR-draft
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Solution : pls order your MPs, MLAs via SMS to print above draft in the Gazette. Pls order him #RtrMla, #RtrMP , #RtrCorporator via SMS. And pls inform as many activists as possible about the fradulent signature-based, negative-recall based RTR-draft AK-420 has proposed and also about RTR-draft, which is based on personal appearance of SMS and NOT signature and which is based on positive recall and NOT negative recall.